What a feast: Meals for Snow-Sports "Champions"

A couple friends and I joined up with a bigger group this past Saturday for some powder icy fun up on Blue Mountain.  Seeing a great opportunity to show off and to make the other no-shows jealous, I decided to make some great food for all of us... well, I'm really not trying to show off... I just make something special for this occasion.

For Friday night, we had paella de mariscos:  

I don't really want to spend money on real langostinos (besides the fact that they're difficult to find head-on-- I believe Chinatown supermarkets sell them but I need to investigate further.  UPDATE:  LAGOSTINOS FOUND!) as my first attempt on paella, so medium shrimps with heads would have to do.  I originally was going to have mussels, but the fish monger at Whole Foods marked the wrong weight (there's absolutely no way that 15 mussels is going to weigh 3 lbs, I saw him weighing it too!), so I balked at the price and returned the mussels at the cashier.  I didn't realize the weight mistake until I got home, so no mussels for you!  

Here's a closer-up shot:  

Look at how classy this is....

Saturday morning before we went off to the slope, I made a frittata with spicy italian sausages, onion, shreds of basil, and fresh mozzarella cheese.  I figured since we'll be using a lot of our muscles, a high protein diet is called for (and I can actually eat it without repercussion too!)  Here's a shot of 1 wedge of the frittata:  

Look at the lightly melted cheese on top contrasted with the basil's green and the egg's yellow.  The eggs were just done so they were still a little soft-- great contrast with the chunky sausage bits.  

Continuing the high protein theme, lunch was self-assembled sandwiches with black forest ham, soppressata (although the one I got wasn't quite as dry-cured as the one on wiki), fresh mozzarella cheese, roasted eggplants, and basil.  I also threw in a couple Luna bar, sweet potato chips, and strawberry koala's march crackers to snack on throughout the day.  No pictures though...  hands were too greasy to take pictures.  

No meals are complete without dessert.  We went to Isgro (official website, yelp review) after lunch on Sunday before sending my friends off to New York.  Here's what we got: 

Top left:  "Peche alla creme."  Top right:  "Italian rum square."  Bottom:  "Mascarpone cannoli."  

The highlights were definitely the peche alla creme and the Italian rum square (Isgro is famous for their Italian rum cake).  The mascarpone cannoli was good but definitely got out-compared by other desserts here.  

All in all, it was a great exercise and great food weekend.  There's absolutely no way I'm going to be able to eat like this unless I go back on the slopes.  

Bon appetit!